28 Mar 11 - Although the media has done a great
job of covering this up, the inconvenient fact is that all seven
glaciers on California’s Mount Shasta are growing. This includes
Whitney Glacier, the state's largest.

Scientists first became aware of these
growing California glaciers in 2002, and I began writing about them in
2003. Now, eight years later, most media outlets still refuse to acknowledge
that these glaciers are growing.

After this year's record snowfall, it will become harder
to continue the deception.

On
Monday, the ski park had nearly 22 feet of snow at the top and more than 8
feet at its lodge.

The City of Mount Shasta, sitting at the foot of the mountain about
midway between San Francisco and Portland, Oregon,
has broken a 108-year-old snowfall record for March with 97.9 inches,
according to the National Weather Service. The old mark of 88 inches was set
in 1903.

For the season, 289 inches (24 feet) of snow has fallen on the city.

With all of this snowfall, I expect to see more glacier
growth on California's fifth tallest mountain.

Glaciers
also growing in Washington and Alaska

But here's the kicker.

Not only on Mt. Shasta, glaciers are also growing in Washington and Alaska.

Or look at Alaska.
Glaciers are
growing in Alaska for the first time in 250 years. Two years ago in May,
Alaska’s Hubbard
Glacier was advancing at the rate of seven feet (two meters) per day -
more than half-a-mile per year. In
Icy Bay, at least three glaciers advanced a third of a mile (½
km) in one year.

Fifth-largest
ice field in the Western Hemisphere also growing

And the Juneau Icefield, which covers 1,505 square miles (3,900
sq km)
and is the fifth-largest ice field in the Western Hemisphere, is also
growing.

According to Michael Zemp at the University of Zurich - one of the
scientists that Al Gore likes to quote - "some positive values were reported
from the North Cascade Mountains and the Juneau Ice Field." ("Positive
values" means "growing".)